Deck 3: Social Inequality and Stratification in Canada

Question 1

In 2005,what did the lowest 20 percent of family units in Canada own?

A) 0.1 percent of total net worth
B) 1 percent of total net worth
C) 5 percent of total net worth
D) 20 percent of total net worth

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What did Max Weber write about?

A) social class and status groups
B) inequality as stemming only from property ownership
C) the proletariat as the dominant class
D) the coming communist revolution

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What kind of society is Canada?

A) caste
B) communist
C) stratified
D) traditional

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is an important element of upward social mobility?

A) income
B) sex
C) age
D) education

Question 5

What is wealth?

A) investment income
B) the assets left for a person in a will
C) the accumulation of income a person earns over a lifetime
D) the accumulation of assets,such as a house,car,savings,cottage,and land

Question 6

There is a close relationship between income and wealth.

Question 7

Who did Karl Marx consider to be the players in society's major conflict? The capitalist class and middle class

A) the capitalist class and the working class
B) the capitalist class and the bourgeoisie
C) the working class and the middle class
D) the working class and the middle class

Question 8

What was the average after-tax income of Canadian families in 2007?

A) 45 300
B) 59 500
C) 71 900
D) 95 300

Question 9

What is income?

A) the money left in a will
B) the money left over after taxes
C) the money you receive from weekly wages
D) the flow of money received over a specified period of time

Question 10

Inequality exists in all societies.

Question 11

According to Marx,what is exploitation related to?

A) the legal age of employment
B) the political role of the workers
C) the level of wages
D) the amount of surplus value

Question 12

In 2007,what did the highest 20 percent of income-earners in Canada earn?

A) 20 percent of total income
B) 27 percent of total income
C) 46 percent of total income
D) 55 percent of total income

Question 13

Of the options below,which makes up about 4 to 5 percent of the Canadian population?

A) middle class
B) upper class
C) working class
D) subworking class

Question 14

Structural-functionalists consider inequality inevitable and natural.

Question 15

From 1999 to 2005,what happened to the median net worth of the lowest quintile?

A) It dropped by 9.1 percent.
B) It dropped by 3.6 percent.
C) It increased by 2.5 percent.
D) It increased by 7 percent.

Question 16

In 2007,what did the lowest 20 percent of income-earners in Canada earn?

A) 1 percent of total income
B) 4 percent of total income
C) 7 percent of total income
D) 15 percent of total income

Question 17

Our ascribed statuses can restrict our ability to achieve our goals.

Question 18

Income is defined as the property a person possesses.

Question 19

Which of the following factors is strongly associated with social inequality?

A) height
B) weight
C) attitude
D) social background

Question 20

Which of the following is not an ascribed status?

A) sex
B) ethnicity
C) attitude
D) social background

Question 21

Working-class people tend to possess relatively little wealth.

Question 22

What is an ascribed status? List the main ascribed statuses.

Question 23

Describe the class structure of Canada.

Question 24

Marx argued that all societies would move smoothly toward communism.

Question 25

What are some of the problems structural-functionalism has in explaining income and wealth inequality?

Question 26

Compare the class structure of Canada with that of Great Britain.What are the major similarities and differences?

Question 27

Describe the differences between income and wealth,and how income and wealth are related.

Question 28

Most middle-class people have a private education.

Question 29

Weber argued that property ownership was irrelevant to a society's functioning.

Question 30

Compare and contrast the theories of structural-functionalism and conflict theory.

Question 31

The size of Canada's working class is insignificant.

Question 32

Income and wealth inequality have increased in recent years.What factors explain this increase?

Question 33

Summarize Marx's theory of inequality.Do you agree or disagree with Marx? Explain.

Question 34

Using Statistics Canada,find data on the average total income for families in two provinces.Explain why the averages may be different.

Question 35

In what ways does a person's social background influence his or her life chances?